Other Plants

The way that I see it is that some things are fine started off early if they have certain characteristics. I've just started off Lobelia Queen Victoria - it has a basal growth habit (ie; new shoots develop from the root stock) so although it could get leggy what I do is to cut the top off at...

Now how am I going to explain this to the mother-in-law!

It is nice, isn't it. If you kept in the greenhouse in the winter you might be able to get it to survive, then you could take cuttings next spring. I bought a similar but much taller and lankier plant a few weeks ago, that one's definitely a salvia but the leaves, flowers and overall shape are...

Thanks both. Pete - yes, I'm not sure how the Ceonothus will react to being cut right back, it's the evergreen variety and I read beforehand that they don't really need pruning at all. Unfortunately it was attracting loads of flies and as it was right outside the kitchen window every time we...

If you like Phormiums there are many coloured varieties, red, Yellow, purple etc, some are a lot smaller than yours and may suit the area better.

Lucky you...I'd have chickens too but the cost of securing the garden would be too much.

Growers in India and China etc use hormones to make the Bamboo flower and they get the seeds from that.

Thanks Daisees - I'll chop them off over the weekend.

The future's bright....apparently.

Thanks, I now have made further checks with your link. I have found it is called Eupatorium purpureum or Joe Pye Weed. Thanks for your help.

Cover your butt and take cuttings from each - they strike super easily.

I got Agastache aurantiaca, but they where seeds, which mixed colours of peach, pink and blues. They are really striking. I don't think they are invasive, but they do have a spreading rootstock. They are native to semi desert areas, but don't see a huge amount of cold.. these are hardy to about...

I have loads of Dahlias. I went to Crews Hill Gardeners Club in April, and they were flogging them - £1 a tuber. Needless to say I went overboard!

I agree with you Harry they are touch tender - best treated as an annual as the new plants are always better than the saved thunbergia plants. However if grown in a pot they do need to be overwintered indoors. A friend grew them up a trellis and did cut them back, covered them overwinter and...

I'll keep an eye out next Spring and see what emerges...then get dividing. Thanks for the advice

Hi Verdun, I'm envious of other members gardens believe me!!! Some of the gardens displayed in the pics are tremendous and show a lot of devotion and passion. I'm afraid I just bumble along and keep packing plants in the borders and try to grow anything I see and like: I...

Love reading Christopher Lloyd

I feel a bit of fence-sitting coming on! If you're taking cuttings from existing plants in your garden, then yes, you don't need to moly-coddle them too much. Snip, re-home, and walk away, quite happy in the knowledge that you almost certainly have a new addition to your family. :-) However,...

stephanotis doesn't seem to like the dry air in heated rooms, had the same problem, put it in less heated room and problem disappeared tricky is to find a less heated room which is not too cold, though the other way is to do sth to increase the humidity in the air, but occasional spraying is...

I cut my Cornus plants down (to stool them) in the Spring and use them as "pea sticks" in the vegetable patch ... and most of them root!